Iraqi PM Maliki “faced a widening revolt
By on Nov 30th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
Iraqi PM Maliki “faced a widening revolt
within his divided government as two senior Sunni politicians joined prominent Shiite lawmakers and Cabinet members in criticizing his policies,” the AP reports. “Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi said he wanted to see al-Maliki’s government gone and another ‘understanding’ for a new coalition put in place with guarantees that ensure collective decision making.”
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“Collective decision making”?? As in democracy? Get serious.
November 30th, 2006 at 7:06 pmMy WTF-Incredulometer siren is deafening, neighbors shouting, gotta go…
Hey georgie! Go and collect the fruits of your democratic seeds…
November 30th, 2006 at 7:13 pmThis is what happens when people dip their fingers in blue ink. Before you know it they will tell Shrub ‘job is done – leave”
November 30th, 2006 at 7:30 pmI gotta wonder…
At any time durin’ their meeting, did Bush grab Maleaky with both hands behind his neck and kiss him full on the lips, ala Michael and Fredo?
November 30th, 2006 at 7:40 pm#5 TTP
No he just told him he will be there until the end of his Presidency ala Rumsfeld
November 30th, 2006 at 7:44 pmTariq al-Hashemi is Sunni.
Tariq al-Hashemi naturally wants the Shiite fundamentalist government in Iraq gone so that the Sunnis are not liquidated by the Iranian trained militias.
Unfortunately, that is just a matter of time.
It is payback time for the Al Dawa party and the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution of Iraq.
November 30th, 2006 at 8:03 pmNo prime minister of Iraq will please all people of Iraqi,but Iraq needs a strong man now; a prime minister who truly believe in one Iraq, not just by saying it. This is the third prime minister since P.Bremer left in 2004 starting with Allawi then Al-Jafari and now Al-Maliki,and when you hear what the Iraqi leaders say now,you sense that he is not in total control of the situation in Iraq with all the killing happening daily. He has been saying that he will get rid of the militia..but saying it not as easy as doing it..since Al-Maliki came to power..the militias got stronger. I hope he is as strong as he thinks he is.
November 30th, 2006 at 8:34 pmtarazan: I hope he is as strong as he thinks he is.
Maliki is being trashed by corporate media which is laying the foundation for a graceful exit for Bush which goes something like we served up democracy but the lazy incapable Iraqis failed to eat up.
Maliki is quite strong.
Bush surrenders Iraq to Maliki’s death squads
by Ahmed Amr
Saturday November 4, 2006
[snip]
As the Commander In Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces, Maliki was making a power play and exercising his ‘right’ to protect his death squad allies from any interference by Bush’s troops.
But Maliki didn’t stop there. He demanded more American funding and accelerated training of the very same Iraqi security forces that moonlight as death squads. And, of course, Bush had no other option but to comply with the absurd request to provide American tax dollars to further enhance the criminal capabilities of the militia infested police and army.
[snip]
The latest media farce is to portray Nouri Al-Maliki as a man out to curb the violence and chaos in our Mesopotamian colony. According to this fable, The Prime Minister is caught between Iraq and a hard place – forced to navigate a treacherous path between a desire to assert the Iraqi State’s monopoly of violence over ‘rogue’ elements in the security forces and the Shia parties that engineered his ascension to power.
There is only one problem with this tale of Maliki’s woes. The Prime Minister is the defacto chairman of the death squads – a radical partisan leader who is out to insure Shia supremacy in the new Iraq. Maliki, Bayan Jabr and Moqtada Sadr are cut of the same ideological cloth. They are men who have spent a lifetime in the quest to convert Iraq into a Shia theocracy – by any means necessary.
November 30th, 2006 at 8:45 pmPRESIDENT BUSH: This is a government that is dedicated to pluralism and rule of law. It’s a government elected by the Iraqi people under a constitution approved by the Iraqi people, which, in itself, is an unusual event in the Middle East, by the way.
Liar!!!
Iraq: Bush’s Islamic Republic
By Peter W. Galbraith
NYRB, Volume 52, Number 13 · August 11, 2005
When President Bush spoke to the nation on June 28, he did not mention Iran’s rising influence with the Shiite-led government in Baghdad. He did not point out that the two leading parties in the Shiite coalition are pursuing an Islamic state in which the rights of women and religious minorities will be sharply curtailed, and that this kind of regime is already being put into place in parts of Iraq controlled by these parties.
[snip]
Real power in Shiite Iraq rests, however, with two religious parties: Abdel Aziz al-Hakim’s Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and the Dawa (”Call,” in English) of Iraq’s Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari. Of the two, SCIRI is the more pro-Iranian. Both parties have military wings, and SCIRI’s Badr Corps has grown significantly from the five thousand fighters that harassed Saddam’s regime from Iran in the decades before the war; it now works closely with Iraq’s Shiite interior minister, until recently the corps’ commander, to provide security and fight Sunni Arab insurgents.
SCIRI and Dawa want Iraq to be an Islamic state. They propose to make Islam the principal source of law, which most immediately would affect the status of women. For Muslim women, religious law—rather than Iraq’s relatively progressive civil code—would govern personal status, including matters relating to marriage, divorce, property, and child custody. A Dawa draft for the Iraqi constitution would limit religious freedom for non-Muslims, and apparently deny such freedom altogether to peoples not “of the book,” such as the Yezidis (a significant minority in Kurdistan), Zoroastrians, and Bahais.
This program is not just theoretical. Since Saddam’s fall, Shiite religious parties have had de facto control over Iraq’s southern cities. There Iranian-style religious police enforce a conservative Islamic code, including dress codes and bans on alcohol and other non-Islamic behavior. In most cases, the religious authorities govern—and legislate—without authority from Baghdad, and certainly without any reference to the freedoms incorporated in Iraq’s American-written interim constitution—the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL).
Dawa and SCIRI are not just promoting an Iranian-style political system —they are also directly promoting Iranian interests.
November 30th, 2006 at 8:53 pmThis is being speculated on Huffington Post:
November 30th, 2006 at 9:28 pmA peaceful coup is being attempted in Baghdad, seeking to replace Nouri al-Maliki with a coalition between the Sunni political leader Saleh al-Mutlak and the Shiite insurgent leader Moqtada al-Sadr.
Ren, keep in mind that the Mayan calendar turns over on 12/21/2002, it doesn’t come to an end like some of the Y2K nuts were predicting. You see, the Mayan calendar operates like a revolving cylinder instead of the fraudulent linear process developed by the Church for the “modern” Western calendar. In doing so, it captures the cycles-within-cycles evolutionary process that is described in the Vedas, a method that more accurately accounts for the historical and fossil record as-we-know-it. So, the good news is that 12/21/2012 actually signifies the end of an era and the beginning of a new one. It might even signify that we will finally learn how to sustain an economy without constant reliance on warfare…ya think???
November 30th, 2006 at 11:04 pm#15 ren
December 1st, 2006 at 12:05 am#20 dvd
That’s about the way I see it going down and it is pretty frightening. Regional warfare, and the stupidest president in charge of our country.
from #29
“…Democrat policy is designed to reward failure…â€
If this is true, than Georgie the Decider has the mother of all rewards coming his way in the lifetime achievement catagory.
December 1st, 2006 at 1:03 amTHE KURDS DESERVE THEIR OWN NATION !!!
KURDISTAN SHOULD BE HOME TO THE 25 MILLION KURDS AND TURKEY, IRAN, IRAQ, AND SYRIA SHOULD HAVE PARTS OF THEIR NATION PARTITIONED TO FORM IT.
BIJI KURDISTAN
BIJI PKK
BIJI PESHMERGA
BIJI OCALAN
December 1st, 2006 at 8:34 amThe Terrorist State of Turkey kills far more Kurds than Saddam ever did … and with US weapons.
The KURDS DEMAND FREEDOM ….. and there is no way we will form a state with the Sunni and Shia terrorists of Iraq !!!
BIJI KURDISTAN !!!
December 1st, 2006 at 8:36 amTHE KURDS DESERVE THEIR OWN NATION !!!
KURDISTAN SHOULD BE HOME TO THE 25 MILLION KURDS AND TURKEY, IRAN, IRAQ, AND SYRIA SHOULD HAVE PARTS OF THEIR NATION PARTITIONED TO FORM IT.
BIJI KURDISTAN
BIJI PKK
BIJI PESHMERGA
BIJI OCALAN
Comment by PESHMERGA — December 1, 2006 @ 8:34 am
The Terrorist State of Turkey kills far more Kurds than Saddam ever did … and with US weapons.
The KURDS DEMAND FREEDOM ….. and there is no way we will form a state with the Sunni and Shia terrorists of Iraq !!!
BIJI KURDISTAN !!!
Comment by PESHMERGA — December 1, 2006 @ 8:36 am
Isolation is not the road to peace. It just generates more resentment. You have to convince your enemy to stop trying to kill/enslave/persecute you. You do that by opening a dialogue and trying to come to some sort of compromise, or you use force to MAKE him stop what he’s doing.
But you’re REAL argument is what is being done to the Kurds, not WHO is doing it. Forming a nation of their own doesn’t make peace. It just turns the new Kurdistan into a fortress, and the former peoples of Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey in the territories used to make the Kurdistan nation who may have had nothing to do with persecution of the Kurds, will now grow to resent them. You don’t break the cycle that way. You just put it off until the next spark starts it up again.
December 1st, 2006 at 11:14 am